Key facts
- Elevation
- 3,491 m (11,453 ft)
- Prominence
- 1,578 m (5,177 ft)
- Listing
- Ultra , Ribu
- Location
- Mongolia – Russia border
- Parent range
- Sayan Mountains
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Part of
- Vostochny Sayan
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Buryatia
- Continent
- Asia
- Elevation
- 3491
- Image
- SajanWschodni.jpg
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- Commons category
- Munku-Sardyk
- topographic prominence
- 1578
- mountain range
- Sayan Mountains
- discoverer or inventor
- Gustav Radde
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mönkh Saridag (Buryat: Мүнхэ Һарьдаг, Mongolian: Мөнх сарьдаг, romanized: Mönkh saridag, lit. 'eternal aiguille'), also spelled as Munku-Sardyk (Russian: Мунку-Сардык), is the highest mountain in the Sayan Mountains of Asia. It is 3,491 metres (11,453 ft) tall and is on the international border between Mongolia and Russia. It is also the highest mountain in Buryatia and the highest mountain in Mongolia's Khövsgöl Province. On the southern side, the tree line is at 2000 meters, on the northern side at 2200 meters.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Monkh Saridag” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.